Communities in the UK are not equally vulnerable to the consequences of COVID-19.
Health, economic, and social inequities make some communities in the United Kingdom more vulnerable to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic than others. We use the British Red Cross COVID-19 Vulnerability Index to identify and track how these vulnerable communities are doing based on cases, testing, hospitalisation and deaths linked to Covid-19; claims for unemployment benefits; and levels of self-reported anxiety. Download our methodology.
Overall Vulnerability
We divide local authorities within nations and regions of the UK into those that are more or less vulnerable using the British Red Cross COVID-19 Vulnerability Index. At the regional level, we show local authorities that are more or less vulnerable relative to other local authorities within the region.
How Vulnerable Communities Fare
Using the same classifications as defined above, we examine how vulnerable communities (at the UK level, within nations and within regions) are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic compared to relatively less vulnerable communities in the area.
Most recent data show that people in more vulnerable communities in the UK were:
Regional Inequalities
Which regions have the biggest gaps between the more vulnerable parts of the population and the rest?
| Region | New weekly cases per 100,000 | Total cases per 100,000 since the start of the pandemic | Inequity tracking: Comparing more and less vulnerable communities in the region |
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